Genetic diversity of Rhododendron dauricum based on morphological traits and SSR markers by Dan Wang, Ying Ma, Xueli Zhao, Ling Wang

“…Importantly, plants showing extreme variations in flower color and flower number were used to further develop two new cultivars 'Ao Xue' and 'Yanricai', respectively. …”
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Toward GIC Forecasting: Statistical Downscaling of the Geomagnetic Field to Improve Geoelectric Field Forecasts by C. Haines, M. J. Owens, L. Barnard, M. Lockwood, C. D. Beggan, A. W. P. Thomson, N. C. Rogers

“…We evaluated the ability of AnEn to predict extreme events using the FSS, HSS, cost/loss analysis and BSS, finding that AnEn outperforms the “do‐nothing” approach.…”
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Diversity and Distribution of Avifauna in the Northeast of Addis Ababa, Central Ethiopia by Tamenut Desalegn, Belayneh Abebe

“…In the study area, urbanization is extremely impacting the environment and altering ecosystem services upon which human civilization depends. …”
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Addressing certain issues of administrative and legal regulation of liability for violation of legal requirements for the safety of vehicle operation in Ukraine by O. M. Halkina, A. O. Ivanov

“…Unfortunately, the state of law and order on the roads of Ukraine is extremely disappointing, and the sad statistics of road accidents and people injured in them are quite convincing. …”
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Relative validity and reproducibility of a short semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire for Chinese athletes. by Qian Xu, Yudan Chu, Huajun Tian, Guoqiang Ma, Jun Qiu, Qiuping Zhang

“…Misclassification of nutrients and food groups into extreme quartiles was rare, with a median misclassification rate of 2% (ranging from 1% to 12%) and 3% (ranging 0 to 10%), respectively. …”
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Tree Diversity and Damage by Cypress Aphid, Cinara cupressi, on Juniperus procera in Gulele Botanical Garden and Entoto by Sitotaw Kebede, Tewodros Mulugeta

“…The mean percentage of aphid-infested trees in Entoto and GBG was 53.6 and 46.4, respectively. Tree mortality was extremely low in both sites and planting systems. The level of aphid damage was also significantly different between the planting systems, where mixed plantations had a lower aphid infestation level. …”
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Scientific provision of an effective development of soybean breeding and seed production in the Russian Far East by V. T. Sinegovskaya

“…Therefore, in scientific institutions, great attention is paid to breeding varieties that can produce high yields in conditions with limited thermal resources with adaptation to the extreme soil and climatic conditions of the region’s soybean growing zones. …”
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Daily Weather Data From Central and Eastern King George Island (West Antarctica) for 2018–2023 by Joanna Plenzler, Tomasz Budzik, Kornelia Anna Wójcik‐Długoborska, Robert Józef Bialik

“…Direct measurements were used to identify extreme values. The described dataset consists offour files, each for one AWS. …”
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Examining the Economic Costs of the 2003 Halloween Storm Effects on the North Hemisphere Aviation Using Flight Data in 2019 by Dabin Xue, Jian Yang, Zhizhao Liu, Shiwei Yu

“…In this study, we estimate the economic impacts from the perspective of air traffic management, assuming an extremely strong space weather event like the 2003 Halloween solar storm would occur in 2019 with a booming air transport industry in recent years. …”
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Distribution and frequency of genetic mutations in three insecticide targets in field populations of Culex tritaeniorhynchus in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, China by Hongwei Xie, Meilin Tang, Hongying Sun, Zhengzheng Huang, Mengmeng Dong, Xianying Wen

“…The results showed that the classical L1014F mutation in VGSC was distributed in all the 6 populations at varying frequencies from 16.98% to 27.78%, and the frequency of F455W mutation in AChE was extremely high (97.06%-100%). Notably, the conserved mutations A296S and V327I previously reported in the Rdl of some other species of mosquitoes were discovered in Cx. tritaeniorhynchus for the first time. …”
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Multiple Primary Angiosarcomas of the Colon by Sonja Radić, Mario Zovak, Anita Galović Marić, Stjepan Baturina, Monica Stephany Kirigin, Božo Krušlin

“…Occurrence in the colorectal segments is considered extremely rare. Case Report. We describe the case of a 61-year-old male with multiple primary angiosarcomas of the colon who presented with fever and abdominal pain. …”
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Biochemical blood parameters and level of endogenous intoxication in cows suffering from hepatopathies under heat stress by E. V. Kuzminova, E. N. Rud, M. P. Semenenko, A. A. Abramov

“…Global warming results in increased extreme weather  events, including heatwaves,  droughts and floods, which exceed plants’and animals’tolerance thresholds, thus posing a threat to the economy and agriculture. …”
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Textural Characteristics and Depositional Regime of the Shitalakshya River Sediments, Bangladesh by Sohag Ali, Mrinal Kanti Roy, Md. Mahmodul Islam, Zillur Rahman, Faruk Ahmed, Abdul Alim, Md. Yeasin Arafath

“…The range of 1.46Ø–4.05Ø represented by the observed mean value suggests sand with medium to extremely fine grains. Most of the sediments indicate moderate sorting, which is shown by the standard deviation (sorting), which ranges from 0.399Ø to 1.48Ø. …”
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Early childhood caries risk prediction using machine learning approaches in Bangladesh by Fardous Hasan, Maha El Tantawi, Farzana Haque, Moréniké Oluwátóyìn Foláyan, Jorma I. Virtanen

“…Random forest classifier (RFC), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), support vector machine (SVM), adaptive boosting (AdaBoost), and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) models were used to identify the best fitted model as the predictor of ECC. …”
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Identification and validation of a metabolic-related gene risk model predicting the prognosis of lung, colon, and breast cancers by Jiyauddin Khan, Chanchal Bareja, Kountay Dwivedi, Ankit Mathur, Naveen Kumar, Daman Saluja

“…In addition, we employed machine learning algorithms such as k-nearest neighbours (KNN), support vector regressor (SVR), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) to assess MRGs’ effectiveness in predicting overall patient survival. …”
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Role of the Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio at the Time of Arrival at the Emergency Room as a Predictor of Rhabdomyolysis in Severe Trauma Patients by Jin Chul Bae, Kyung Hoon Sun, Yong Jin Park

“…In the multivariate analysis, the NLR (odds ratio [OR], 1.252; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.130–1.386), pH level (OR, 0.006; 95% CI, 0.000–0.198), presence of acute kidney injury (OR, 3.009; 95% CI, 1.140–7.941), and extremity Abbreviated Injury Scale score (OR, 1.819; 95% CI, 1.111–2.980) significantly differed between the non-RM and RM groups. …”
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Survival and prognostic factors among different types of liposarcomas based on SEER database by Jiaqi Zhao, WenLi Du, XiaoLiang Tao, AiAi Li, Yi Li, Shuai Zhang

“…Male gender, higher pathological grade, and primary tumor sites outside the extremities were identified as risk factors for the prognosis of subtypes other than pleomorphic liposarcoma. …”
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The staffing problem in the police during 1943–1944 and ways to resolve it by V. A. Grechenko

“…The staffing problem in the police during the war was extremely acute. The mobilisation of police officers to the army, their deaths in combat, and evacuation to the east significantly worsened the staffing potential of this law enforcement body. …”
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Analysis of Water and Sediment Variation Characteristics in Jingjiang River Reach before and after Operation of Three Gorges Reservoir Based on GAM by DING Jiawei, PENG Yuming, CHEN Yanfei, SHEN Jian, HUANG Lieming

“…The distribution of water and sediment is extremely uneven throughout the year, with peaks all occurring in July. …”
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Simulating Genetic Mixing in Strongly Structured Populations of the Threatened Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) by John G. Black, Steven J. B. Cooper, Thomas L. Schmidt, Andrew R. Weeks

“…Our autosomal heterozygosity pipeline indicated significant variability in mean heterozygosity between populations, identifying one extremely genetically degraded population on Inner Sister Island, Tasmania. …”
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